I did a lot of thinking on this one for my home system, and eventually decided that the most ecconomical way was to get one of those internal disk caddies and a couple of extra IDE disks to use in it. Given the use of compression on the backups (eg. tar -cjf), these backup disks don't have to be as big as the normal production disk(s).
Depending on your circumstances, this may be worth considering. Brian.
From: James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Expert List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [expert] Linux Backup
Date: 05 Dec 2002 20:08:11 -0800
If you don't have a lot of megs to to backup the backup to cd feature in
Webmin is a nice lightweight backup. It allows you to backup only those
files/directories you need to backup.
James
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 04:54, Belkie, Dan wrote:
> Hi Guys!
>
> I have a couple Mandrake boxes running on my network, and I would like to
> know peoples opinions on the best way (also cost effective) to do a backup.
> Now I know this depends on what the uptime that I require is but......
>
> I have a firewall and another box that is a mail server (just relays to
> another mail server) Would you guys suggest getting into disk mirroring /
> RAID (does it work well?) if so what would the config have to be? 4 disks? 2
> for boot (and to mirror it) and 2 for data (and to mirror it)
>
>
> What about just tar cvf backup.tar ./
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dan
>
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